If you are using the recommended workflow of having a 'test' catalog and a 'production' catalog, you will need to copy and paste between the two catalogs. In addition, there may be times you want to copy and paste within the same catalog. Because much of the catalog data is inter-related or dependent on other catalog data, the copy and paste command are limited or not available in certain situations.
In general, if the data is editable in the Catalog task, then you can perform these copy and paste actions:
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Copy and paste individual cells in the grid view from one row to another row.
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Copy and paste multiple cells in the grid view from one row to another row.
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Copy and paste an entire row in the grid view to create a new row in the same grid.
More elaborate copy and paste operations are available depending on the selected items and their location in the catalog. See Copying and Pasting within the same Catalog and Copying and Pasting between Test and Production Catalogs.
At this time, you cannot copy and paste:
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Interference Rules
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Naming Rules
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Labels
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Cable data
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Piping Manufacturing data
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Reports
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Shapes
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Space Management data
While a catalog copy and paste operation is in progress, do not copy and paste data
or files in another application or in the operating system. Doing so may cause the
catalog data to be erased from the clipboard resulting in paste problems. See Copying Filters between Catalogs.